On the 23rd of February a hearing was conducted by the Mental Health Tribunal (MHT) in regards to the fate of Saeed Dezfouli, a prisoner wrongfully held in indefinite detention by the NSW mental health system. Presided by Richard Cogswell and two other members of the MHT, the hearing was also…
In response to the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal (MHRT), the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran has presented a letter addressing Saee Dezfouli's poor experiences within the NSW mental health care system and his protest against it. The Embassy reminds the MHRT of thier duty of care and 'how…
Dry Hunger Strike in Mental Hospital
Media release: March 12, 2018
Saeed Dezfouli feels betrayed by the Mental Health Review Tribunal. “I am left with no other alternative but to commence a dry hunger strike (nil by mouth) to protest the inhumane behavior of the NSW Mental Health…
Read more: Media Release: Dry Hunger Strike in Mental Hospital
ACT Computers in Cells Report The Community Justice Coalition (CJC) resolved to arrange a visit to the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC), Australian Capital Territory.
This visit intended to extend the work into the Computers in Cells program. The insights of the ACT experience with in-cell…
Justice Action proposes the formation of a consumer-run Housing Cooperative drawing upon the overseas and local experience of successful community-controlled housing.
Justice Action supports Callan Park's development as a privileged living area to accommodate mental health consumers, demonstrating a…
Read more: Our Backyard - Proposal for a Callan Park Consumer Housing Cooperative
Media Release November 9, 2017
The death of Miriam Merton in the Lismore Hospital mental ward, lying naked in blood and faeces while a nurse casually mopped around her, shocked everyone. The video footage and media had truthfully…
Kerry O’Malley – Chemical Restraint in Practice
Report CTO order retained: 22 August 2017
Kerry O’Malley is a 71-year-old woman whose involvement in the mental health system over the last 47 years has revealed the extent to which draconian control and dismissal of individual autonomy…
Mental health consumers have won another battle against the use of forced medication. Kerry O’Malley is free of the label at last. But she was only one of fifteen thousand people in NSW currently having medication enforced under a CTO, being brutalised and degraded by the health system. They…
Wednesday 17 May 2017
Justice Action recently received correspondence from a prisoner at Long Bay Correctional Complex regarding the death of a prisoner in custody. The case is an example of the need for single cells in all prisons for all prisoners, so that people can retain some…
This report was presented to the NSW Parliament by Ian Goodwin, Auditor-General, on the 3rd of May 2017. It found that 75% of prisoners identified as being in need of a program did not receive one by their earliest parole release date. Consequently, they were held in custody for longer than…
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